Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series

Location

Virtual

Free

Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Joseph Babcock, Quan Manh Ha and Leonora Simonovis:

Please join us for a Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series reading and Q&A on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 12:30 p.m.  Virtual event. 

Joseph Babcock came to USD in 2019 from the University of California San Diego where he was a lecturer in the college writing program. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in 2014 and taught writing and literature for several years at universities in Vietnam. Babcock writes mostly creative nonfiction and his work has appeared in The New York Times and The Daily Beast and been supported by grants from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Ragdale Foundation. He is currently at work on a book about artificial intelligence and the future of writing.

Quan Manh Ha is professor of American Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of Montana. His research interests include multiethnic US literatures, Vietnam War literature, critical race theory, and literary translation. He is the (co)translator of Other Moons: Vietnamese Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath (Columbia University Press, 2020), Luminous Nights: Pioneering Vietnamese Short Stories (La Frémillerie, France, 2021), and Hanoi at Midnight: Stories by Bao Ninh (forthcoming with Texas Tech University Press, 2022). He believes that literary translation is a political and an ethical act, and thus besides publishing several scholarly articles and essays in journals, he is committed to translating Vietnamese literature to promote cross-cultural understanding and global discourse on colonialism, imperialism, and the Vietnam War from all sides of the conflict.

Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American  poet, educator, and scholar who currently lives in San Diego, CA, on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles and is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture at the University of San Diego (USD). Her poetry manuscript, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and was published by The Center for Literary Publishing. Her creative work has been published in The American Journal of Poetry, Tinderbox poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Inverted Syntax, Arkansas International, Gargoyle, Kweli and Diode Poetry Journal, among others. This spring she is a Visiting Teaching Artist with the Poetry Foundation and will be teaching a workshop on the theme of 'Exile' for the Forms & Features series.

The event is free and open to the public. This is a virtual event. All are welcome to attend.

Zoom link: https://sandiego.zoom.us/j/99978077929

If you have any questions, please contact Malachi Black, Director of the Cropper Center for Creative Writing, at malachiblack@sandiego.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sponsored by the Cropper Center for Creative Writing.